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Re: Modal says "blank" to NVDA

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From: Mallory
Date: Mar 22, 2020 8:15AM

If Patrick is right and if you're using a Blink engine browser, you'll hear the field names if they have names... try the modal in Firefox and you'll not even hear those, just Tab stops.

cheers,
Mallory

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, at 1:36 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> On 21/03/2020 23:06, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am on a website and their dialog looks "blank" to NVDA, but when I hit
> > tab, I am able to move through and edit the fields, but when I enter into
> > brows mode, NVDA just says "blank".
> >
> > Do you know what may be going on?
>
> I'll have a wild guess and say the site mistakenly set
> aria-hidden="true" to the modal / the whole page, accidentally hiding
> the modal itself (rather than just hiding the underlying page)?
>
> P
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